Word: iyer
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Meenakshi Iyer was heading home to her husband when a Hindu gang boarded her bus, baying for Muslim blood. As a Hindu, Iyer was safe. But she knew the man beside her, Raja Chowdhury, would be killed if they discovered he was a Muslim. "I'm Mrs. Iyer," she told the mob, "and this is Mr. Iyer, my husband," she lied, introducing Chowdhury. And that was it. The gang moved on, questioning other passengers, forcing men they doubted to prove they weren't circumcised...
...movie Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Indian writer-director Aparna Sen weaves a love story set against the backdrop of communal violence, the monkey that never leaves India's back. Iyer (played by Konkona Sensharma, Sen's daughter) and Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) seem to have nothing in common. She's an orthodox Hindu from South India, he's a liberal Muslim from West Bengal; she's married with a child, he's a single photographer. But their overnight bus journey through the hills of West Bengal draws them together. As violence erupts, a curfew is declared and they take shelter together...
...magazine whose name means "youth" held a poll among its readers two years ago, Bill Clinton proved twice as popular as the Vietnamese Prime Minister. Having worked so hard to liberate itself from France and then America, Vietnam still needs, Lamb suggests, to be rescued from itself. --By Pico Iyer...
Harvard took the early lead by capturing the doubles point. The first doubles team of sophomore David Lingman and freshman Jonathan Chu defeated Stefan Paulovic and Sunil Iyer, 8-5. The second doubles team was defeated, but sophomore Cliff Nguyen and captain William Lee captured the point easily by virtue...
...Pico Iyer once commented that the problem with Rushdie is that he is “too damn talented” for his own good. In person, one gets an idea of what he meant: Rushdie brims with a humor and energy that are outshone only by his abundantly apparent fascination and infatuation with the world. His newest novel, Fury is a first step in a new direction for him—shorter, fast-paced and more personal. Still, when Rushdie was in Harvard Square last Thursday reading from the novel for Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some...